The New Stack Podcast

The nature of software is by default deeply nested, making bug hunting always a work of forensics. In distributed systems, there may be only a few lines of code but there can be a long trail of dependencies that makes bugs also difficult to detect. It's a chain of dependencies with bugs that might be anywhere.

It's a problem that is emerging as the container ecosystem and distributed systems get more sophisticated and applied on a larger scale. We discussed this often at Software Circus, thinking about priorities as enterprise customers consider how to use containers and orchestrators in production.

To the surface comes a lot of issues not previously needed to address. It speaks to the need for specifications and standards so these loosely coupled systems can work together.

"There may be tens of services involved -- the bug could be anywhere," said Gareth Rushgrove of Puppet who talked to us at Software Circus.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/MHnz7CdWOX4

To the multitude of languages supported by a runtime that is internal to Docker, appc, and OCI containers, add Visual Basic, C#, and F#.  Last month, Microsoft re-engineered its open source .NET Core runtime with version 2.0, to easily execute code in any of these three languages — at one time, exclusively associated with the Windows operating system — in any container, on any platform.

“When the .NET Standard 2.0 was being developed. . . I had a .NET 1.0, 15-year-old application that was part of my senior project [in 2000],” explained Scott Hanselman, Microsoft’s principal open source program manager, in a discussion with Scott Fulton for The New Stack Makers.  “It was a tiny virtual machine, and it was going to simulate an abstract virtual machine.  This was the kind of code that you’d write 15 years ago.  It’s not idiomatic 2017 code.  It’s classically old, .NET code.  It is as much a legacy application as it could be.”

To the multitude of languages supported by a runtime that is internal to Docker, appc, and OCI containers, add Visual Basic, C#, and F#.  Last month, Microsoft re-engineered its open source .NET Core runtime with version 2.0, to easily execute code in any of these three languages — at one time, exclusively associated with the Windows operating system — in any container, on any platform.

“When the .NET Standard 2.0 was being developed. . . I had a .NET 1.0, 15-year-old application that was part of my senior project [in 2000],” explained Scott Hanselman, Microsoft’s principal open source program manager, in a discussion with Scott Fulton for The New Stack Makers.  “It was a tiny virtual machine, and it was going to simulate an abstract virtual machine.  This was the kind of code that you’d write 15 years ago.  It’s not idiomatic 2017 code.  It’s classically old, .NET code.  It is as much a legacy application as it could be.”

To the multitude of languages supported by a runtime that is internal to Docker, appc, and OCI containers, add Visual Basic, C#, and F#.  Last month, Microsoft re-engineered its open source .NET Core runtime with version 2.0, to easily execute code in any of these three languages — at one time, exclusively associated with the Windows operating system — in any container, on any platform.

“When the .NET Standard 2.0 was being developed. . . I had a .NET 1.0, 15-year-old application that was part of my senior project [in 2000],” explained Scott Hanselman, Microsoft’s principal open source program manager, in a discussion with Scott Fulton for The New Stack Makers.  “It was a tiny virtual machine, and it was going to simulate an abstract virtual machine.  This was the kind of code that you’d write 15 years ago.  It’s not idiomatic 2017 code.  It’s classically old, .NET code.  It is as much a legacy application as it could be.”

One thing about Software Circus — performances were not just for the actors. We saw bank technologists jousting to tell their story about scale. {code} hosted what was described as the smallest cafe. It was in a shipping container. To get out, you had to work with your team to solve a host of clues. There was an oracle.

The performances were mostly from people with no background in acting and singing, with a few exceptions. One of those exceptions was Siraj Raval, a data scientist and accomplished performer as well. Check out the rap he did to end his talk at the circus. Raval, who we featured Wednesday, gives these talks about machine learning and neural networks. He adds a bit of fun to the talks with a rap that is a bit awkward and very fun. He gets up there and helps people better understand neural networks and machine learning.

Software Circus is always much more than a standard conference. We love anything that gets technologists to tell their stories through a performance.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/e2GEN9csCeQ

Read more at: https://thenewstack.io/art-building-neural-networks/

Subscribe to Raval's channel on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWN3xxRkmTPmbKwht9FuE5A/featured

One thing about Software Circus — performances were not just for the actors. We saw bank technologists jousting to tell their story about scale. {code} hosted what was described as the smallest cafe. It was in a shipping container. To get out, you had to work with your team to solve a host of clues. There was an oracle.

The performances were mostly from people with no background in acting and singing, with a few exceptions. One of those exceptions was Siraj Raval, a data scientist and accomplished performer as well. Check out the rap he did to end his talk at the circus. Raval, who we featured Wednesday, gives these talks about machine learning and neural networks. He adds a bit of fun to the talks with a rap that is a bit awkward and very fun. He gets up there and helps people better understand neural networks and machine learning.

Software Circus is always much more than a standard conference. We love anything that gets technologists to tell their stories through a performance.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/e2GEN9csCeQ

Read more at: https://thenewstack.io/art-building-neural-networks/

Subscribe to Raval's channel on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWN3xxRkmTPmbKwht9FuE5A/featured

One thing about Software Circus — performances were not just for the actors. We saw bank technologists jousting to tell their story about scale. {code} hosted what was described as the smallest cafe. It was in a shipping container. To get out, you had to work with your team to solve a host of clues. There was an oracle.

The performances were mostly from people with no background in acting and singing, with a few exceptions. One of those exceptions was Siraj Raval, a data scientist and accomplished performer as well. Check out the rap he did to end his talk at the circus. Raval, who we featured Wednesday, gives these talks about machine learning and neural networks. He adds a bit of fun to the talks with a rap that is a bit awkward and very fun. He gets up there and helps people better understand neural networks and machine learning.

Software Circus is always much more than a standard conference. We love anything that gets technologists to tell their stories through a performance.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/e2GEN9csCeQ

Read more at: https://thenewstack.io/art-building-neural-networks/

Subscribe to Raval's channel on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWN3xxRkmTPmbKwht9FuE5A/featured

Earlier this year, cloud platform provider Univa re-introduced Navops, its multi-tenant container platform, as a way for multiple clients to run microservices on Kubernetes. In this re-introduction, we discovered the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, a Navops customer that gathers health and wellness data from universities, organizations, and government agencies on a global scale — and we learned how putting that data to use in analytics operations is having an immediate effect, in terms of lives saved by healthcare providers.

Later that month, Univa formally contributed Navops to the open source community. Then, in September, the company added a feature it had been hinting about, that could conceivably turn the entire orchestrator market upside-down: a service that enables workloads and frameworks designed for Apache Mesos to be supported by Kubernetes instead.

“The Mesos framework thinks it’s running on Mesos, essentially,” explained Robert Lalonde, Univa’s vice president and general manager for Navops, in an interview with Alex Williams for The New Stack Makers.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ol50al7ffxk

Earlier this year, cloud platform provider Univa re-introduced Navops, its multi-tenant container platform, as a way for multiple clients to run microservices on Kubernetes. In this re-introduction, we discovered the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, a Navops customer that gathers health and wellness data from universities, organizations, and government agencies on a global scale — and we learned how putting that data to use in analytics operations is having an immediate effect, in terms of lives saved by healthcare providers.

Later that month, Univa formally contributed Navops to the open source community. Then, in September, the company added a feature it had been hinting about, that could conceivably turn the entire orchestrator market upside-down: a service that enables workloads and frameworks designed for Apache Mesos to be supported by Kubernetes instead.

“The Mesos framework thinks it’s running on Mesos, essentially,” explained Robert Lalonde, Univa’s vice president and general manager for Navops, in an interview with Alex Williams for The New Stack Makers.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ol50al7ffxk

Earlier this year, cloud platform provider Univa re-introduced Navops, its multi-tenant container platform, as a way for multiple clients to run microservices on Kubernetes. In this re-introduction, we discovered the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, a Navops customer that gathers health and wellness data from universities, organizations, and government agencies on a global scale — and we learned how putting that data to use in analytics operations is having an immediate effect, in terms of lives saved by healthcare providers.

Later that month, Univa formally contributed Navops to the open source community. Then, in September, the company added a feature it had been hinting about, that could conceivably turn the entire orchestrator market upside-down: a service that enables workloads and frameworks designed for Apache Mesos to be supported by Kubernetes instead.

“The Mesos framework thinks it’s running on Mesos, essentially,” explained Robert Lalonde, Univa’s vice president and general manager for Navops, in an interview with Alex Williams for The New Stack Makers.

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Ol50al7ffxk